12 October 2022
The current exhibition at Klei in London is of work by Daiwa Scholarships alumna Symy Ong. Currently Oxford-based, artist Symy Ong is exhibiting her first body of work back in the UK since spending time in Japan on the Daiwa Scholarship!
Read on16 September 2022
Very many congratulations to former Daiwa Scholarships in Japanese Studies Scholar Warren A. Stanislaus who was awarded the 2022 Ian Nish Prize for his article “From Cool Japan to Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black Britain” (2022). The Ian Nish Prize is awarded annually for the best article by an early career researcher in any
Read on7 September 2022
Oki will be performing at Glad Cafe in Glasgow on 11 November, at the White Hotel in Salford on 12 November and at Cafe Oto in London on 14 November. The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to be supporting travel to the UK by Ainu artist Oki on a debut UK tour with Rumiko
Read on6 September 2022
16 Daiwa Scholars from the 2020, 2021 and 2022 cohorts have arrived in Japan! The start of the programme has been delayed by two years in the case of the 2020 Scholars and by one year in the case of the 2021 Scholars. We wish them a great twelve months of language study (at Waseda),
Read on4 September 2022
Daiwa Scholarships alumnus and figurative painter Carl Randall was invited by the Japan Society London to give a talk on 4 July 2022. (Link to the video of the talk is below.) The talk took place at the Swedenborg Society in Bloomsbury, central London. In this illustrated lecture Carl gave an insight into his series
Read on23 May 2018
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall recently completed a large painting of Piccadilly Circus – a large monochrome oil painting depicting the crowds and buildings of a busy central London area, involving painting 70+ portraits from life. A short video showing the making of the painting is now available online (1min 42secs): Piccadilly Circus video, YouTube
Read on18 May 2018
On 20 March 2018, Dame Darcey Bussell DBE, the retired star ballerina who has developed a second career as a TV personality, spoke on “Dancing Through Life” at the residence of Britain’s Ambassador to Japan, Paul Madden.
Read on10 May 2018
From 16 to 21 May 2018 at Gallery@Oxo in London, Fumio Nabata, Richard Bailey and Fiona Yaron-Field will be holding a photography exhibition, Positive Energies to raise awareness of Down’s Syndrome. Nabata’s work will feature photographs of children taken in a variety of countries including Japan, Myanmar, South Africa and the UK.
Read on8 May 2018
Daiwa Scholarship alumnus and artist Carl Randall is exhibiting his portraits of animator Nick Park (‘Wallace & Grommit’, ‘Shawn the Sheep’, ‘Chicken Run’, ‘Early Man’) and author/illustrator Raymond Briggs (‘The Snowman’, ‘When the Wind Blows’, ‘Ethel & Ernest’) at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibition 2018, May 10th till 25th, at The Mall Galleries
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